CRED Successful and Skilful Communications 2025

More on your rehearsals

• Write out scripts to make sure all are crystal clear and simple – and colleagues can take over in case of emergency • Align external experts and tell them the limits of what to discuss • Focus on items of disagreement and prepare counter proposals, if written comments from regulators have been received before meeting • Don’t forget the non-verbal message - your data maybe perfect, but your voice or your body language may tell it differently • Train your presenters to read the body language of your regulators – do they get the message?

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What you should know about meetings

• Not every meeting is the same • F2F meetings usually take 1 hour or less • There may be a TC instead of a meeting, can take only ½ hour or less • Sometimes regulators will facilitate the discussion, sometimes the company • Sometimes translators/ interpreters are involved • Sometimes the company gives a presentation, sometimes not • For EU advice there are usually no presentations, as they take time - consider paper handouts • Meeting rooms may be very small and may not have projecting facilities

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